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In continuing efforts to expand its online-advertising business, Google will distribute ad-supported video content from Viacom's MTV Networks to websites in its extensive advertising network. And it plans to sell MTV shows as downloads, in an attack on Apple's iTunes.

The website offered to sell stolen credit card information for US$100, but it was the title of the poster that caught FBI agent Thomas X Grasso Jr.'s attention. The cybercriminal identified himself as a "Capo di capo" - a boss of bosses, in Mafia parlance.

Google has begun alerting users whenever they click on a search result that may take them to a dangerous website. The new feature goes live officially on Friday, according to an announcement from The Stop Badware Coalition, which is collaborating with Google on this effort.

A 26-year-old man from Connecticut faces up to 30 years in prison for allegedly having sexual relations with a 15-year-old girl he met through MySpace, the US Department of Justice said late on Tuesday.